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Originally Posted by mmurfin87 View Post
Absolutely, no doubt at all.



None of these, either together or separately, are required parts of an operating system.
All an operating system really is required to do is allow a user to run programs of their choice. ANYTHING beyond that qualifies as smart.



Zune: A huge catalog of drm-free music at competitive prices. Also available is the Zune Pass, of which I've been a subscriber for a few years now. I can download whatever I want, whenever I want, wherever I want, and however much of it I want. No hassles. I get to pick 10 of my favorite songs each month and they're mine forever, no questions asked. I can have only my phone, and stream the vast majority of songs available on the marketplace seamlessly. If I'm at my computer I can use the fantastic software client to manage/buy/play my music. If I'm at the library, I can log into the zune website and stream music through the web browser. I mean the abilities are astounding! Plus every night I go to bed, plug in my phone right beside me nowhere near my computer, but when I wake up the next morning all my new music and podcasts from the computer are magically on my phone. New pictures and music I have on my phone are on my computer.

I can go on, and I probably will to correct some of the blatant idiocy I'm reading in this forum, but for now I'm going to get some pizza.
Is that before or after you've struggled to click through dozens of ads while connected to the 2G network at the breakneck speed of 14.4 kbps and missed half a dozen calls because you don't live in a 3G/3.5G area?

Let's face it at £5 for 1GB usage cap and the total lack of interest shown by the networks in investing in their infrastructure, it's gonna be a costly, painful experience, and that pizza is gonna get cold pretty quick.